LABORATORY TO PROMOTE/DEVELOP BETTER USABILITY OF CLINICAL SYSTEMS, INTERFACES, EFFECTIVENESS, AND INCORPORATION OF DECISION SUPPORT FOR IMPROVED CARE COORDINATION AND CONTINUITY

Mayo Clinic is in the process of establishing an "Advanced Development Projects Lab", to serve as an interdisciplinary prototyping, usability testing, and evaluation environment for optimizing clinician performance, satisfaction, and patient safety with advanced electronic tools and workflows. This Mayo Clinic lab will be managed, staffed, and funded through the Mayo Clinic Center for the Science of Healthcare Delivery, with close collaboration with the Center for Innovation, the Clinical Practice Committee, and the Office of Information and Knowledge Management, and with Arizona State University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. Mayo Clinic core EMR vendors will supply software instances as the base upon which to develop prototypes initially, with the intent to expand the system platforms subsequently. Closely coupled with this is a joint ASU-Mayo interoperable app "sandbox" initiative to encourage innovation and support for agile creation and testing of apps that can work with underlying EHR systems and middleware. Examples of the foci of this laboratory will be discussed. Authors: Keith A. Frey, MD, MBA, and Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD. Dr. Frey is Professor of Family Medicine, Mayo Cliic, Scottsdale, AZ. Dr Greenes is Ira A. Fulton Chair and Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ.